Hi, Rory, In Charlotte, North Carolina, the Park and Recreation Department sponsors community gardens on public parkland, including the one where I garden (54 plots, average 20x20). There is a non-profit, church-based group that also sponsors gardens here, but some of these are also on public land, and run with public agency assistance.
You might also want to look at Portland, Oregon's Park and Recreation community gardening program. Your critic sounds like Oscar the Grouch. Can't you 'buy them off' with some fresh tomatoes? Don http://urbanministrygarden.wordpress.com Message: 1 Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:19:03 -0400 From: "Rory Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Community_garden] need to prove that many community gardens are on public land To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Friends: We have a small (10-12 family) organic community garden, the first in a park in cheltenham township, PA. We've been operating for 5 seasons now. One of the neighbors thinks the garden is 'messy' and 'unsightly' and is trying to get it shut down. One of the arguments they are using is that the garden is in a public park, and they say that most community gardens are on private or institutional land. this isn't true according to my research, but I need to gather more examples of community gardens that are on park land. Can you help? Warmly, _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
